Patents by Inventor James Lynn Davis

James Lynn Davis has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20130241435
    Abstract: A lighting device (100) includes a housing (104), a light converter (136), one or more light sources (132), and one or more optical waveguides (160). The housing includes a light exit (124) for outputting a combination of primary light (140) and secondary light (156,158). The light source emits a primary light beam of a primary wavelength. The optical waveguide includes an input end (162) optically coupled to the light source, and an output end (164) facing a housing interior (108) and positioned at an angle to an axial direction through the housing interior. The optical waveguide directs the primary light beam from the light source, through the housing interior and toward a luminescent material of the light converter. The luminescent material emits secondary light of one or more wavelengths different from the primary wavelength in response to excitation by the primary light beam. The light source may be mounted outside the housing interior so as not to obstruct light propagation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2011
    Publication date: September 19, 2013
    Applicant: RESEARCH TRIANGLE INSTITUTE, INTERNATIONAL
    Inventors: Michael Kasper Lamvik, James Lynn Davis, Brent Thomas Ward
  • Publication number: 20130215599
    Abstract: A lighting device may include a housing interior, a light exit, a light source, and a light converter. Output light is outputted from the light exit by emitting primary light from the light source. In response, the light converter emits secondary light of one or more wavelengths different than the primary wavelength, and the output light includes a combination of the primary light and the secondary light. The color of the output light may be tuned by adjusting a color parameter of the output light. The adjustment includes adding a color tuning material at a location in the housing interior where primary light is incident on the color tuning material. The color tuning material is configured for emitting auxiliary light in response to the incident primary light. Subsequently, the lighting device produces color-tuned output light that includes a combination of the primary light, the secondary light and the auxiliary light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2011
    Publication date: August 22, 2013
    Applicant: RESEARCH TRIANGLE INSTITUTE, INTERNATIONAL
    Inventors: James Lynn Davis, Kimberly A. Guzan
  • Publication number: 20130215597
    Abstract: A lighting device (100) includes a housing (104) enclosing a housing interior (108), a light source (132), a light converter (136), and a color tuning device. The light source is configured for emitting a primary light beam of a primary wavelength (140) through the housing interior. The light converter includes a luminescent material (144) facing the housing interior and configured for emitting secondary light (156, 158) of one or more wavelengths different from the primary wavelength, in response to excitation by the primary light beam. The housing includes a light exit (124) for outputting a combination of primary light and secondary light. The color tuning device is configured for adjusting a position of the primary light beam relative to the luminescent material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2011
    Publication date: August 22, 2013
    Applicant: RESEARCH TRIANGLE INSTITUTE, INTERNATIONAL
    Inventor: James Lynn Davis
  • Publication number: 20130215598
    Abstract: A photoluminescent nanofiber composite includes a nanofiber substrate, first luminescent particles, and second luminescent particles. The first luminescent particles are supported by the nanofibers and span at least a portion of a substrate surface, as a layer on the substrate surface, or with some particles located in a bulk of the substrate, or both. The second luminescent particles are disposed on the substrate. The second luminescent particles may be disposed directly on the substrate surface or on the first luminescent particles. The second luminescent particles may be deposited in a pattern of deposition units. The first and second luminescent particles are configured for emitting light of different respective wavelengths in response to excitation by a light beam. One or more surface treatment coatings may be provided at different locations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2011
    Publication date: August 22, 2013
    Applicant: RESEARCH TRIANGLE INSTITUTE, INTERNATIONAL
    Inventors: Kimberly A. Guzan, Karmann C. Mills, Li Han, James Lynn Davis, Paul G. Hoertz
  • Patent number: 8459355
    Abstract: Methods of isolating a portion of a wellbore comprising placing a sealant composition into a subterranean formation after drilling of the wellbore therein and subjecting the sealant composition to ionizing radiation wherein subjecting the sealant composition to the ionizing radiation alters the set modifier. The sealant composition comprises a set modifier selected from the group consisting of an accelerator, an oxidizing agent, a set retarder, and combinations thereof. And the sealant composition comprises a polymeric component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2013
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Samuel J. Lewis, James Lynn Davis, Vijay Gupta, Michele Ostraat, David F. Myers, Mike Lamvik, Andrew K. Dummer, Vikram Rao, Lawrence Roberts, Anthony Badalamenti
  • Publication number: 20130000891
    Abstract: Methods of isolating a portion of a wellbore comprising placing a sealant composition into a subterranean formation after drilling of the wellbore therein and subjecting the sealant composition to ionizing radiation wherein subjecting the sealant composition to the ionizing radiation alters the set modifier. The sealant composition comprises a set modifier selected from the group consisting of an accelerator, an oxidizing agent, a set retarder, and combinations thereof. And the sealant composition comprises a polymeric component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2012
    Publication date: January 3, 2013
    Applicant: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Samuel J. Lewis, James Lynn Davis, Vijay Gupta, Michele Ostraat, David F. Myers, Mike Lamvik, Andrew K. Dummer, Vikram Rao, Lawrence R. Roberts, Anthony Badalamenti
  • Publication number: 20120281428
    Abstract: A fiber-based reflective lighting device and a lighting device. The fiber-based reflective lighting device includes a source configured to generate a primary light, a mat of reflective fibers which diffusely reflects light upon illumination with at least the primary light, and a light exit configured to emanate the reflected light. The lighting device includes a housing, a source configured to generate primary light and direct the primary light into the housing, a reflective mat of fibers disposed inside the housing at a position to reflect the primary light, and a light exit in the housing configured to emanate the reflected light from the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2010
    Publication date: November 8, 2012
    Applicant: RESEARCH TRIANGLE INSTITUTE
    Inventors: James Lynn Davis, Howard J. Walls, Karmann Mills, Vijay Gupta, Michael Kasper Lamvik
  • Patent number: 8245783
    Abstract: The present invention relates to methods useful for isolating a portion of a wellbore. In one embodiment, a method includes preparing a sealant composition containing a set modifier component. The sealant composition is placed into the wellbore and is subjected to ionizing radiation that alters the set modifier component, triggering the thickening of the sealant composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services Inc.
    Inventors: Samuel J. Lewis, James Lynn Davis, Vijay Gupta, Michele Ostraat, David F. Myers, Mike Lamvik, Andrew K. Dummer, Vikram Rao, Lawrence R. Roberts, Anthony Badalamenti
  • Patent number: 8162057
    Abstract: The present invention includes methods relating to the setting of fluids or slurries in a wellbore. In one embodiment, a method of isolating a portion a wellbore by preparing a sealant composition comprising a fluid component and a polymeric additive component, placing the sealant composition into a wellbore and subjecting the sealant composition to ionizing radiation. The ionizing radiation can cause bonding between polymeric additive components and create a polymer matrix within the sealant composition that increases the mechanical strength of the sealant composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2012
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services Inc.
    Inventors: Samuel J. Lewis, David F. Myers, James Lynn Davis, Vikram Rao, Vijay Gupta, Lynn Margaret Soby, Andrew K. Dummer
  • Patent number: 8143198
    Abstract: The present invention relates to compositions useful for isolating a portion of a wellbore. In one embodiment, a composition includes a sealant composition containing a wellbore treatment fluid and a set modifier component. The sealant composition can be placed into the wellbore and subjected to ionizing radiation that alters the set modifier component, triggering the setting of the sealant composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2012
    Assignee: Hallilburton Energy Services Inc.
    Inventors: Samuel J. Lewis, James Lynn Davis, Vijay Gupta, Michele Ostraat, David F. Myers, Mike Lamvik, Andrew K. Dummer, Vikram Rao, Lawrence Roberts, Anthony Badalamenti
  • Publication number: 20120033403
    Abstract: A stimulated lighting device for stimulatable light emission including a luminescent sheet including light stimulatable particles which emit secondary light upon receiving primary light. The lighting device includes a source configured to generate and direct the primary light obliquely onto the luminescent sheet, at least one reflector configured to reflect at least a part of the primary light and a part of the secondary light onto the luminescent sheet and configured to reflect at least a part of scattered primary light and a part of the secondary light from the luminescent sheet toward the light exit, and a light exit configured to emanate light as a combination of the primary light and the secondary light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2010
    Publication date: February 9, 2012
    Applicant: Research Triangle Institute
    Inventors: Michael Kasper Lamvik, James Lynn Davis
  • Publication number: 20110272141
    Abstract: The present invention relates to methods useful for isolating a portion of a wellbore. In one embodiment, a method includes preparing a sealant composition containing a set modifier component. The sealant composition is placed into the wellbore and is subjected to ionizing radiation that alters the set modifier component, triggering the thickening of the sealant composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2011
    Publication date: November 10, 2011
    Applicant: Halliburton Law Department
    Inventors: Samuel J. Lewis, Anthony Badalamenti, James Lynn Davis, Vijay Gupta, Michele Ostraat, David F. Myers, Michael Lamvik, Andrew K. Dummer, Vikram Rao, Lawrence R. Roberts, Paul Hoertz
  • Publication number: 20110272142
    Abstract: The present invention includes methods and compositions relating to the setting of fluids or slurries in a wellbore. In one embodiment, a method of isolating a portion a wellbore includes preparing a sealant composition having a fluid component, a polymeric additive constituent, and a set modifier component. The sealant composition is placed into a wellbore and subjected to ionizing radiation. The ionizing radiation can cause bonding between polymeric additive constituents and create a polymer matrix within the sealant composition that increases the mechanical strength of the sealant composition. The ionizing radiation also alters the set modifier component, triggering the thickening of the sealant composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2011
    Publication date: November 10, 2011
    Applicant: Halliburton Law Department
    Inventors: Samuel J. Lewis, Gary Funkhouser, Anthony Badalamenti, Vikram Rao, David F. Myers, Vijay Gupta, James Lynn Davis, Michael Lamvik, Paul Hoertz, Lynn Margaret Soby, Andrew K. Dummer
  • Patent number: 7999455
    Abstract: A device for stimulable light emission that includes a fiber mat of nanofibers having an average fiber diameter in a range between 100 and 2000 nm, and includes plural stimulable particles disposed in association with the nanofibers. The stimulable particles produce secondary light emission upon receiving primary light at a wavelength ?. The average fiber diameter is comparable in size to the wavelength ? in order to provide scattering sites within the fiber mat for the primary light. Various methods for making suitable luminescent nanofiber mats include: electrospinning a polymer solution including or not including the stimulable particles and forming from the electrospun solution nanofibers having an average fiber diameter between 100 and 2000 nm. Methods, which electrospin without the stimulable particles, introduce the stimulable particles during electrospinning or after electrospinning to the fibers and therefore to the resultant fiber mat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2011
    Assignee: Research Triangle Institute
    Inventors: James Lynn Davis, Anthony L. Andrady, David S. Ensor, Li Han, Howard J. Walls
  • Publication number: 20110194304
    Abstract: A method for producing a fiber membrane of nanofibers that have both smooth and porous surface features. The method includes materials processing using polymer mixes with solvents and melt polymers with additives. The method includes nanomaterial incorporation onto a fiber structure after formation of the fiber structure. The fiber structure can be a part of a nanoparticle carrier material, a nanoparticle disposal medium, a lighting medium, and a catalysis medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2009
    Publication date: August 11, 2011
    Applicant: Research Triangle Institute
    Inventors: Li Han, Anthony L. Andrady, James Lynn Davis
  • Publication number: 20110048715
    Abstract: The present invention includes methods relating to the setting of fluids or slurries in a wellbore. In one embodiment, a method of isolating a portion a wellbore by preparing a sealant composition comprising a fluid component and a polymeric additive component, placing the sealant composition into a wellbore and subjecting the sealant composition to ionizing radiation. The ionizing radiation can cause bonding between polymeric additive components and create a polymer matrix within the sealant composition that increases the mechanical strength of the sealant composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2009
    Publication date: March 3, 2011
    Inventors: Samuel J. Lewis, David F. Myers, James Lynn Davis, Vikram Rao, Vijay Gupta, Lynn Margaret Soby, Andrew K. Dummer
  • Publication number: 20110054068
    Abstract: The present invention relates to compositions useful for isolating a portion of a wellbore. In one embodiment, a composition includes a sealant composition containing a wellbore treatment fluid and a set modifier component. The sealant composition can be placed into the wellbore and subjected to ionizing radiation that alters the set modifier component, triggering the setting of the sealant composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2009
    Publication date: March 3, 2011
    Inventors: Samuel J. Lewis, James Lynn Davis, Vijay Gupta, Michele Ostraat, David F. Myers, Mike Lamvik, Andrew K. Dummer, Vikram Rao, Lawrence R. Roberts, Anthony Badalamenti
  • Publication number: 20110048713
    Abstract: The present invention relates to methods useful for isolating a portion of a wellbore. In one embodiment, a method includes preparing a sealant composition containing a set modifier component. The sealant composition is placed into the wellbore and is subjected to ionizing radiation that alters the set modifier component, triggering the thickening of the sealant composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2009
    Publication date: March 3, 2011
    Inventors: Samuel J. Lewis, James Lynn Davis, Vijay Gupta, Michele Ostraat, David F. Myers, Mike Lamvik, Andrew K. Dummer, Vikram Rao, Lawrence R. Roberts, Anthony Badalamenti
  • Publication number: 20110054067
    Abstract: The present invention includes compositions relating to the setting of fluids or slurries in a wellbore. In one embodiment, a sealant composition having a fluid component and a polymeric additive component can be subjected to ionizing radiation. The ionizing radiation can cause bonding between polymeric additive components and create a polymer matrix within the sealant composition that increases the mechanical strength of the sealant composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2009
    Publication date: March 3, 2011
    Inventors: Samuel J. Lewis, David F. Myers, James Lynn Davis, Vikram Rao, Vijay Gupta, Lynn Margaret Soby, Andrew K. Dummer
  • Publication number: 20100209602
    Abstract: A device for stimulable light emission that includes a fiber mat of nanofibers having an average fiber diameter in a range between 100 and 2000 nm, and includes plural stimulable particles disposed in association with the nanofibers. The stimulable particles produce secondary light emission upon receiving primary light at a wavelength ?. The average fiber diameter is comparable in size to the wavelength ? in order to provide scattering sites within the fiber mat for the primary light. Various methods for making suitable luminescent nanofiber mats include: electrospinning a polymer solution including or not including the stimulable particles and forming from the electrospun solution nanofibers having an average fiber diameter between 100 and 2000 nm. Methods, which electrospin without the stimulable particles, introduce the stimulable particles during electrospinning or after electrospinning to the fibers and therefore to the resultant fiber mat.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2010
    Publication date: August 19, 2010
    Applicant: Research Triangle Institute
    Inventors: James Lynn Davis, Anthony L. Adrady, David S. Ensor, Li Han, Howard J. Walls